I cant access my MBWD 1 Tb. The blue led keeps on flashing. I tried to reset it by press and hold the reset button for 15 seconds, turn off the device unplug the device wait for 30 sec and turn on the device again and then wait for 20 seconds and then release the reset button. but it didnt work. tried to ping myworld, which is the name of my MBWD but i cant ping it. pleaseee…help me…it still under warranty but i want to back up my data first.
tried to put the harddrive into external HD caddy but on my mac it didnt recognise the partition format of the MBWD harddrive.

btw i dont enable ssh or anything such as installing mionet or etc. normally i just access my MBWD by going to run and type \\myworld
double click the public folder and put in my username and password.
that's it.

complete ring flashing alternately, and i managed to find out that drive B is fail. only drive A is working and at the moment i can manage to go into the web based management. is there any way to extract data from drive B since im using linear storage?

1) remove drive B from MBWE 2) boot your computer with Ubuntu Live CD so that you are running Linux. 3) attach drive B via USB cable SATA adapter to your computer. 4) using Ubuntu, mount drive B and explore the partitions and files. 5) see if you can copy the files (or some of them) from drive B to you computer.

Linear mode is not RAID 0, so that means that your files are for the most part complete on the single drive B, instead of spread out between A & B.

tried to connect it to my ubuntu computer. turn on the pc - linux and then go to computer but it doesnt mount. i guess the harddrive is totally corrupted. i also managed to find out that my nas's fan is not working at all. i dont know since when it's not working. probably this is the reason why the harddrive is corrupted as we just had summer in australia plus i never turn off my nas.

so…
yeah…probably i cant retrieve my data at all. i will call wd tmrw and claim for the warranty. thanks for all your help guys. cheers

If your NAS has been spinning all the time for a few years, then it is likely that the fan would burn out. The is a design flaw with these NAS in that they do not spindown and thus give the drives and fan a rest. That is why it is important to install the smart_spindown script to solve this problem.

Sorry about your data loss. Look at the good side, now you can upsize your MBWE. Instead of buying one more 500MB disk, buy 2x1T disks.